Anything from a lunar lander to a gyrocopter, taking in jump-jets and conventional helicopters, one-off prototypes to mass produced designs. Basically, if it can take off vertically, then it's eligible!
Runs from 21 January 2017 to 10 April 2017.
I recall that a general discussion thread has been useful in the past for these things.
Well I managed to dig out a number of unbuilt helos and VTOL characters. Oddly enough I have no plastic for this category although I am long in resin bonus kits from Anigrand (and a few...
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Yes, very diverse subjects and some great models.
Good job everyone.
Er. Not many from me. Just the one, in fact. I've not braved rotorcraft until now, except for my Avro Rota of last year...
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And another Harrier, the Crown kit, corrected around the canopy and finished with Thai Scale decals. Full marks for those, they really give a sharp and different look to the AV-8.
These hardly deserve to be called models at all as they are 3D printed and the V23 version only has three parts (two rotor and the fuselage oh and two crew) and the V15 has front and rear fuselage and two rotors (and a single crew).
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Just returned from a few days camping with the family at Wye River on the Great Ocean Road. Unfortunately very wet on the days setting up the tent and this morning dismantling it, so it'll probably take me a few days to recover from the cold I have now acquired! But, on the...
This was one of those impulse buys, purely out of curiosity. It's another Art of Tactic piece and cost me less than £6.
To be honest, on seeing the illustration of the model on the back of the box, I nearly put it back on the shelf;
I didn't want an opaque canopy....
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Отлично, товарищ. Or in English, Excellent, Comrade (unless Google Translate is telling fibs). For the cheapest 1/144 kits going around, these Art of Tactic models can certainly result in a decent build with a little work here and there. OK, maybe a lot of work if we're talking...
Heliplane is done and the Ryan is mere pitots away from completion, so on to the next one. Breaking slightly from , I thought I'd build the Curtiss Wright X-19.
This was a curious design which was overly complex and finicky, proving something of a failure. Curtiss Wright...
after looking through the kits in the stash, i was having trouble between choosing a Harrier, Seakings or an AW101 8-)
in the end, i have decided to go with the Anigrand AW101 (EH101 Merlin) i got in a trade a few years ago.
Here's the stablemate to the Pogo, this time the kit is by Anigrand. Easier starting point, although I always wind up filling in all the panel lines. Otherwise pretty stock, I vacformed the canopy and pimped up the cockpit a bit.
Got the kit on Ebay, can't remember the name of the source. (It's a cottage effort that offers solid subjects from time to time.) Had to hollow out the cockpit and vac a new canopy, and both halves of the vertical fins came from suitable donors as the resin parts were too crude....
OK, now that the Fa284 will be completed way before the GB5 deadline (just awaiting a couple of decals and a final matt clear coat to seal the deal), I am actually entertaining a second build. Complete contrast to GB4 where I started 2, finished zip. I did mention a small...
Reiterating, my choices for this GB were the Mark I Wessex, Foxone Natter, KdK Kayaba autogiros and Unicraft Fa284. If I was looking for a straightforward build, I would have gone with the Wessex. However, I think back to the Transport GB and recall that a kit that had sat...
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Thanks for the kind words. It truly is an odd bird and big, too, taking up the same display area as a Ju52/3m. I am thinking of sending a couple of photos to Igor for his Unicraft Models Gallery (which obviously abounds with 1/72 completions but very few in 1/144). However, I...
The second on my list is this Convertiplane (or compound gyroplane if we are splitting hairs).
This was a response to a 1951 USAF call for a helicopter with aircraft characteristics in terms of cruise speed and range. McDonnell's design featured a radial engine that powered...
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What a delightful little build. Straight out of some Gerry Anderson serials...
As this may well be known to many forumites I will avoid the temptation to drone on about the background and history of this, fascinating as it is.
Restricting myself to (ahem) one sentence - this was a USArmy design for a close air support attack helicopter which Lockheed...
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If I recall, the YUH-61 was a competitor to the precursor of the UH-60 Blackhawk, the YUH-60.
The S.67 did have a troop carrier role and might best be thought of as a US equivalent to the Mi-24 Hind D, putting its gunship credentials first but with the added transport role.
So. Another build to be getting on with as the Seneca is done (once I reattach an aerial which keeps pinging off) and the Fairchild is also getting near the end of the road.
After a dig around I've found I have two of these, although I think I'll only build one for this GB....
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Another amazing crazy creation to add to your collection.
It looks superb, well done.
The smallest decal I can find is 0.5mm (I think, I will confirm when I check out my decal bank).
Now this really would have been a deathtrap - a tiltrotor minus all the fly-by-wire tech that makes the Osprey just about flyable, and designed to land on water. Hmmmm. It was mooted as an air-sea-rescue bird early in WWII and I can honestly say that if I was bobbing in the...
This is a resin model from FoxOne.
Beautifully pressure molded and very fine resin pieces with hardly any flash.
The kit comes with decals to build one of three versions, M17 (pilotless), M23 (the one I will build) and the M25.
the launch tower parts after spraying in RLM74 and...
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Nice one Peter!
The gantry looks a bit like a rollercoaster - but a lot more dangerous!
here is my Anigrand Focke Angelis 225. a conversion of the DFS 230 glider into a autogyro that was designed to allow more pinpoint landings but cancelled due to the slow descent and vulnerability to enemy fire.
So although no vertical take off it did have a vertical landing!...
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That was quick! One minute, I'm reading about the history of the aircraft, the next I'm seeing photos of the finished goods. A complete contrast to my stringing out of a build ... more waffling than modelling with me, I hate to admit. :oops:
I bought a couple of the F-Toys AS365 a few years ago with the intention of making a Brazilian Army Pantera:
I took the F-toys model apart:
But after some little internet research, I found out that the F-Toys kit has a short nose, while the helicopters used by Brazil have...
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Nice work on that. I bought some extras of the F-Toys models - three to be precise (you see why below) with the intent of changing them to the fictional USAF craft from the George Clooney movie The Peacemaker.
They are still awaiting attention but I may get to them one of...
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